Seeing the importance of a tool that provides this in-depth analysis of health sector priority areas, the Ministry of Health, Ghana recently collaborated with Community Systems Foundation technical staff to bring 2017 data into EQUIST.
From 16-17 May 2019, the Ministry of Health Department of Planning and Policy Development (MoH DPPD), with support from UNICEF HQ, organized a Bottleneck Analysis and Root-cause Analysis Workshop in Lilongwe, Malawi.
While global efforts to eradicate Maternal and Neonatal Tetanus (MNT) have drastically reduced the number of cases in the last 20 years, the World Health Organization reported that in 2018 (the latest year for which estimates are available) 25,000 newborns died from tetanus.As countries continue working together to eliminate MNT,
Growing up in Rwanda after the genocide in the late 1990s, Shahrouh experienced firsthand the growing health challenges and disparities that children and women face in fragile contexts. Many were suffering from mental and physical trauma, children were orphaned and cases of HIV/AIDS were rising in the country.
Throughout the last two decades, Ghana has implemented several national measures aimed at improving overall child survival and health equity in the country. [1] While these policies amplify the necessity of health equity, Ministry of Health focal points have had limited capacity to analyse health sector data prior to the introduction of the EQUitable Impact Sensitive Tool (EQUIST) in Ghana.
